| 1945 |
| 4.-11.2 | Roosvelt, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta |
| 8.5 | End of World War 2 in Europe |
| 26.6 | Signing of the Charta UN in San Francisco |
| 17.7-2. | Stalin, Churchill/Atlee and Truman meet in Potsdam |
| 6.8-9. | A-bomb drops on Japan |
| 14.9. | Capitulation of Japan |
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| 1946 |
| 15.3 | Churchill's speech about the Iron Curtain |
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| 1947 |
| 10.2 | Paris peace talks |
| 12.3 | Announcment of Truman's doctrine |
| 5.6 | Start of the supporting Marshall's plan |
| 5.10 | Founding of Informbyro |
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| 1948 |
| June | Begining of the Berlin blockade and the forming of the air bridge |
| 2.11 | Truman re-elected president |
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| 1949 |
| 18.1 | Foundment of the CMEA (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance) |
| 4.4 | North Atlantic Aliance entered by 11 states. |
| May | End of the Berlin blockade |
| 23.5 | Forming of West Germany |
| 29. | First atom bomb test in the USSR |
| 7.10 | Forming of East Germany |
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| 1950 |
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| 1952 |
| 1.6 | Fortification of the inter-German border |
| 3.10 | First British atom bomb test |
| 1.11 | First US hydrogene bomb test |
| 4.11 | Eisenhower elected president |
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| 1953 |
| 5.3 | Stalin dies |
| 17.6 | Labour workers stand-up in East Berlin |
| 27.6 | End of the Korean War |
| 12.9 | Khrushchev becomes the Chairman of the Communistic Party |
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| 1955 |
| 9.5 | West Germany enters NATO |
| 14.5 | Forming of the Warshaw Pact |
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| 1956 |
| 14.2 | The 20th summit of the CPSU. Later, February 25, Khrushchev's allegations of Stalin's reign |
| 17.4 | Informbyro dismissed |
| 23.10 | Hungarian stand-up starts |
| 31.10-7.11 | British-French offense in Suez |
| 4.10 | Soviet army enters Budapest |
| 6.10 | Eisenhower re-elected president |
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| 1957 |
| 15.2 | Gromyko named Minister of Foreign Affairs of USSR |
| 4.10 | USSR announced the release of Sputnik 1 |
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| 1959 |
| 16.2 | Castro becames prime minister of Cuba |
| 15.9 | Krushchev starts his visit to the USA |
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| 1960 |
| 13.2 | French atom bomb test |
| 1.5 | U-2 plane shotdown over the USSR |
| 16.5 | Four super powers meeting in Paris |
| August | Soviet technicians called off China |
| 8.11 | Kennedy wins presidential election |
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| 1961 |
| 12.4 | The flight of Yuriy Gagarin |
| 13.4 | Sealing of the East German border in Berlin |
| 17.4 | Building of the Berlin Wall |
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| 1962 |
| 22-27.10 | Cuban rocket crisis |
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| 1963 |
| 20.6 | USA and USSR established a "hotline" connection |
| 26.6 | Kennedy visits Berlin |
| 25.7 | USA and USSR sign nuclear testing ban treaty |
| 22.11 | Kennedy killed, Johnson takes over presidency |
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| 1964 |
| 15.10 | Brezhnev replaces Khrushchev as chairman of CPSU |
| 16.10 | Chinese atomic bomb test |
| 3.11 | Johnson wins presidential election |
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| 1965 |
| febr./mar | Conflict between USA and Viet-kong flames up |
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| 1966 |
| 1.6 | France quits NATO command | |
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| 1967 |
| 27.1 | USA, USSR and UK sign aerial nuclear test ban treaty |
| 5-10.6 | 6-days war in Near East |
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| 1968 |
| 30.1 | Viet-Kong starts Tat offensive |
| 1.7 | USA, USSR and UK sign anti nuclear arms proliferation treaty |
| 20-21. | Warshaw pact armies enter CSSR |
| 5.11 | Nixon elected for president |
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| 1969 |
| 6.1 | French weapons sales to Israel banned |
| 18.1 | Four-party conference about Vietnam in Paris |
| 20.1 | Nixon enters White House |
| 21.1 | Soviet-Jordan treaty about technichal and economical cooperation |
| 28.1 | Gromyko accuses USA of violating Laos' inner affairs |
| 22.2 | Nationalist offensive in South Vietnam |
| 24.2 | Nixon starts his journey across Western Europe |
| 26.2 | USSR propses a new definition of armed agrassion in the UN |
| 2.3 | Soviet-Chinese conflict (Chinese assault on the Ussuri river) |
| 17.3 | Member states of the Warshaw pact proposed a conference about European security |
| 18.3 | Heavy US bombardment in Cambodia |
| 25.3 | Pakistani president M.Ajub Khan resignes after civil desorders. The goverment was appointed by Jahra Khan. |
| 1.4 | Lin Piao succeses Mao Ce-tung |
| 11.4 | The Soviets re-established conference with China from 1964 |
| 27.4 | Referendum held in France, de Gaulle steps down |
| 26.5 | Soviet-French agreement about economical and trade cooperation for years 1970-74 |
| 3.6 | Soviet-British long-term business agreement for years 1969-75 |
| 5-17.6 | International meeting of 75 communistic and workmen's parties in Moscow |
| 13.6 | Soviet goverment accepted the temporary goverment of South-Vietnam |
| 15.6 | G.Pompidou elected new French president |
| 5. | First secret meeting of H.Kissinger and Xuan Thuy of North Vietnam |
| 1.9 | Goverment overthrown in Lybia, lead taken by colonel Qaddafi |
| 3.9 | North Vietnamese president Ho Chi Min dies |
| 11.9 | USSR ministers' chairman A.Kosygin in Benjing |
| 19.9 | USSR proposes a meeting about strengthening international security at the UN General Assembly |
| 15.10 | Moratorium in the US - demonstration against Vietnam War |
| 20.10 | China and USSR start negotiations in Benjing |
| 21.10 | W. Brandt becomes West German chancelor |
| 30-31.10 | Conference between ministeros of foreign affairs about preparations of the European conference in Paris |
| 3.11 | Nixon declared vietnamisation plan |
| 15.11 | Biggest anti-ear demonstration in the USA |
| 17.11 | First round of the SALT negotiations between USA and USSR in Helsinki |
| 24.11 | SALT ratified by both parties |
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| 1970 |
| 3.-21.3 | Negotiations between West Germany and USSR about the act of no use of military power. (first round was held on 30.1-18.2) |
| 5.3 | The Nuclear Arms Proliferation Treaty became valid. Ratification documents held in Moscow, Washington and London. |
| 17.3 | Lon Nol's overthrow in Cambodia. Sinahuk creates an exile goverment in Benjing. |
| 19.3 | Prime minister of East Germany, W.Stroph meets bundeskanzler W.Brandt in Erfurt |
| 30.4 | US and Saigon troops intervention in Cambodia |
| 4.5 | Soviet declaration of US intervention in Cambodia |
| | Four Ohio University students killed by a demonstration against the intervention in Cambodia |
| 5.5 | Senate of the USA stopped every financial support to US troops in Cambodia as of 30.6.1970 |
| 6.5 | USSR and CSSR sign bilateral support treaty |
| 27.5 | East German prime minister W.Stoph visits West German Kassel. |
| 11.6 | USSR agrees to continue support Vietnam |
| 18.6 | Návrat brit. konzervatívcov k moci - E.Heath becomes prime minister |
| 12.8 | W.Brandt signed treaty about cooperation between Moscow and West Germany |
| 1.-8.9 | Jordianian war |
| 28.9 | Egyptian president Gamál Abd an-Násír dies. Anvar Sadat named new president |
| 27.10 | Soviet protest against US and Turkey violations of Soviet airspace. |
| 28.10 | People's (communistic) party wins Chilean election |
| 3.11 | Salvador Allende elected president in Chile |
| 9.11 | General Charles de Gaulle dies |
| | Soviet goverment opposes Portugese agression in Guinea |
| December | Elections in Pakistan - won by Awami League, demanding autonomy for East Pakistan |
| 7.12 | W.Brandt signs cooperation treaty between Poland and West Germany |
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| 1971 |
| 10.4 | US ping-pong team arrives in China |
| 25.10 | China entered UNO, Taiwan expelled |
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| 1972 |
| 21.2 | Nixon starts his visit to China |
| 10.4 | USA and USSR sign biological weapons ban treaty |
| 22.5 | Nixon starts his visit to Moscow |
| 26.5 | USA and USSR sign SALT 1 |
| 7.11 | Nixon re-elected for president |
| 21.12 | West and East Germany sign Basic mutual relations treaty |
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| 1973 |
| 27.1 | Vietnamese peace treaty signed in Paris becomes valid. |
| March | US army troops withdraw Vietnam |
| October | Arabian-israeli october war |
| 23.12 | Oil producers in Persian Gulf double the oil price |
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| 1974 |
| 8.-9. | Nixon resigns, he is replaced by Ford |
| 24.11 | Ford a Brezhnev agree about the layout of the strategic arms control treaty (SALT 2) |
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| 1975 |
| 30.4 | End of the Vietnamese war |
| 17.7 | Common Soyuz-Apollo flight |
| 1. | Helsinki declaration signed |
| November | Angolan civil war |
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| 1976 |
| 2.11 | Carter wins election |
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| 1977 |
| October | USSR starts SS-20 rocket deployment |
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| 1979 |
| 1.1 | USA and China begin to establish diplomatic bonds. |
| 18.6 | Carter and Brezhnev sign SALT 2 |
| 25.12 | Soviet troops enter Afghanistan |
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| 1980 |
| 4.1 | USA stop wheat sales to the USSR |
| July | International boykot of the Moscow Olypic Games |
| 22.9 | Start of the Iran-Iraqi war |
| 4.11 | Reagan elected for president |
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| 1981 |
| 13.12 | Martial law declared in Poland |
| 29.12 | USA lays economic sanctions on USSR and Poland |
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| 1982 |
| 16.3 | Brezhnev freezes the deployment of the SS-20 rockets west of Ural |
| 10.11 | Brezhnev dies and is replaced by Andropov |
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| 1983 |
| marec | Reagan declares the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) |
| 21.7 | Martial law canceled in Poland |
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| 1984 |
| 17.1 | NATO and Warshaw Pact arms limitation talks start |
| 9.2 | Andropov dies and is replaced by Chernenko |
| August | Most of East Europe countries boykot Los Angeles Olympic Games |
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| 1985 |
| 4.2 | Reagan requests three times military budget rise to support SDI |
| 10.3 | Chernenko dies |
| 11.3 | Gorbachev named Chairman of Central Commitee of the CPSU |
| 7.4 | Gorbachev declares definitive stop of missile deployment in Europe |
| 2.7 | Schevarnadze replaces Gromyko as Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 21.11 | First meeting of Gorbachev and Reagan in Geneve |
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| 1986 |
| 11-12.10 | Gorbachev and Reagan meet in Reykavik |
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| 1987 |
| 25.6 | Gorbachev outlines several reforms to Soviet economy |
| 8-10.12 | Gorbachev and Reagan meet in Washington, middle-range missles ban treaty signed |
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| 1988 |
| 16.7 | Warsaw pact demands a three-step decrease of conventional weapon units in Europe |
| 20. | Iran-Iraqi war ends |
| 8.11 | Bush wins election |
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| 1989 |
| 10.1 | Cuban troops start to leave Angola |
| 15.2 | Full retreat of Soviet forces from Afghanistan |
| 4.6 | Solidarita wins elections in Poland |
| 10.9 | Hungary allows East Germans to enter Austria through their border |
| 2.10 | Start of pro-democratic changes in East Germany |
| 7.10 | Hungarian socialistic labour party proclaimes self-dismissal |
| 9.11 | East Germany opens West German border |
| 2-3.12 | Bush and Gorbachev meet off the Maltanian coast |
| 10.12 | Non-communistic goverment seize power in Czechoslovakia |
| 22.12 | Ceausesco's goverment overthrown in Rumunia |
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| 1990 |
| 11.2 | Mandela released from prison |
| 18.3 | Free elections in East Germany |
| 21.3 | Namibia becomes independent |
| 9. | Iraq invades Kuwait |
| 3.10 | Re-union of Germany |
| 19-21.11 | Force limitation treaty signed by Warshaw pact and NATO in Paris on a OECD meeting |
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| 1991 |
| 16.1-8.2 | Persian gulf war |
| June | Slovenian and Croatian war starts |
| 29.6 | CMEA dismissed |
| 1.7 | Warshaw pact dismissed |
| 31.7 | Bush and Gorbachev sign START 1 |
| 19-21. | Hard-line communists try to overthrow the goverment in USSR |
| 29. | Soviet President stops activity of CPSU |
| 8.12 | USSR dismissed, Commonwealth of Independent States created |
| 25.12 | Gorbachev resigns his post of President of Soviet Union, formal dismissal of USSR |
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| 1992 |
| April | Bosnian war starts |
| 25.4 | Communistic goverment collapses in Afghanistan |
| 3.11 | Clinton wins election |
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| 1993 |
| 1.1 | Slovak and Czech Republics founded |
| 3.1 | Bush and Yetsin sign START 2 |
| 4.10 | End of Moscow upstand |
| 1.11 | European Union founded (Maastricht agreement) |
| 12.12 | First multi-party elections in Russia |
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| 1994 |
| 11.1 | NATO presents the "Partnership for peace" program |
| 15.4 | Uruguyan round of GATT talks accepted |
| 9.5 | Mandela elected president of Republic of South Africa |
| June | Russia signs Partnership for peace treaty |
| July | North Korea ejects IAAE |
| 8.7 | South Korean dictator Kim Ir-sen dies |
